William Shakespeare

“At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun”

— William Shakespeare

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

— William Shakespeare

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.

— William Shakespeare

“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.”

— William Shakespeare

“O, gentle lady, do not put me to’t,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.”

— William Shakespeare

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

— William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

— William Shakespeare

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

— William Shakespeare

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad…

— William Shakespeare

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so…

— William Shakespeare

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more…

— William Shakespeare

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then…

— William Shakespeare

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel…

— William Shakespeare

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless…

— William Shakespeare

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love…

— William Shakespeare

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did…

— William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

— William Shakespeare

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

— William Shakespeare

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

— William Shakespeare

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

— William Shakespeare

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

— William Shakespeare

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

— William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

— William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

— William Shakespeare

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

— William Shakespeare

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

— William Shakespeare

“A pair of tribunes that have wrecked fair Rome to make coals cheap - a noble memory!”

— William Shakespeare

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

— William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

— William Shakespeare

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

— William Shakespeare

“We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.”

— William Shakespeare

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

— William Shakespeare

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

— William Shakespeare

It is the disease of not listening… that I am troubled with.

— William Shakespeare

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

— William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

— William Shakespeare

That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

— William Shakespeare

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

— William Shakespeare